SEO

How Google Search & Google Discover Picks Image Thumbnails

Posted by admin on 2026/03/03 at 12:31 pm

Google updated its image SEO best practices and Google Discover documentation to clarify how Google picks a preferred image thumbnail for Google Search and Google Discover.

Google Updates Alcohol, Prescription Drugs, Gambling & Government Policies

Posted by admin on 2026/03/03 at 12:21 pm

Google has updated or is updating a number of Google Ads and Google Merchant Center policies. This goes across alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling and games and government documents and services policies.

WordPress User Registration & Membership Plugin Vulnerability via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Posted by admin on 2026/03/03 at 12:16 pm

Critical vulnerability in WordPress User Registration & Membership plugin enables unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrator role. The post WordPress User Registration & Membership Plugin Vulnerability appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Help Document On Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Checkout

Posted by admin on 2026/03/03 at 12:11 pm

Google has published a new help document titled About the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and UCP-powered checkout feature on Google. This was published in the Google Merchant Center help documentation section.

Google’s Titans And MIRAS: Significant Advancement In Long-Context AI via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Posted by admin on 2026/03/03 at 10:17 am

Google’s Titans architecture and MIRAS framework enable AI to handle massive amounts of data and work faster. The post Google’s Titans And MIRAS: Significant Advancement In Long-Context AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google AI Generated Landing Page Patent Is Limited To Shopping & Ads via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Posted by admin on 2026/03/03 at 3:43 am

Google’s landing page generator patent is limited to low conversion shopping pages, product feeds and advertising.

Google AI Overview Citations From Top-Ranking Pages Drop Sharply via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Posted by admin on 2026/03/02 at 9:36 pm

New data finds AI Overviews often cite sources beyond page one. Fan-out queries may help explain why, and YouTube appears frequently in citations.

Google Clarifies How It Picks Thumbnails For Search, Discover via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Posted by admin on 2026/03/02 at 6:20 pm

Google updated its Image SEO and Discover documentation to explain how schema markup and the og:image meta tag influence thumbnail selection. The post Google Clarifies How It Picks Thumbnails For Search, Discover appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 2, 2026

Posted by admin on 2026/03/02 at 3:00 pm

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. There is a Google patent document that implies Google Search might send searchers to AI-generated page of your site…

Information Retrieval Part 4 (Sigh): Grounding & RAG

Posted by admin on 2026/03/02 at 2:30 pm

Explore information retrieval grounding and retrieval augmented generation to enhance LLM outputs with trustworthy sources. The post Information Retrieval Part 4 (Sigh): Grounding & RAG appeared first on Search Engine Journal .